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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: DEATH BY TALONS - Did an owl kill Kathleen Peterson? TIDDY SMITH IS OUR SPECIAL GUEST.
Description: An Outrageous Theory For Murder!
On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Durham, NC home. Her scalp was laced with deep incisions, and her blood was strewn from outside to inside the house.
The sinister truth of that night turned her murder into North Carolina's most enigmatic criminal case, capturing media attention across the globe.
Police zeroed in on Kathleen’s husband, Michael Peterson, and charged him with murder.
But Was It The Truth?
A neighbor, Larry Pollard, came up with an alternative “kill...